New year, new books

As always, Christmas and my birthday brought me a smorgasbord of new books. Which is awesome. I love books, and I love my family who know I will always be happy with them as a present.

For Christmas I got:

The Bricks That Built the Houses by Kate TempestLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonWhy I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-LodgeBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonMoshi Moshi by Banana YoshimotoBossypants by Tina FeyThe Death of Noah Glass by Gail JonesThe Public Confessions of a Middle-aged Woman by Sue TownsendStay With Me by Ayòbámi AdébáyòPompeii by Mary BeardThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersPompeii Awakened by Judith HarrisPenguin Modern Poets 3: Your Family, Your Body by Malika Booker, Sharon Olds and Warsan ShireBread and a Dog by Natsuko KuwaharaGoodnight Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo

Birthday books.

And then for my birthday I got even more books, but in fairness 50 of them are mini books containing a short story or essay:

Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christine Mari Inzer
Penguin Modern boxsetExit West by Mohsin HamidA Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming

The TBR is now groaning (I’m genuinely not sure how to fit all these new books on the TBR bookcase).

Happy New Year everyone!

UPDATE: I got two more late birthday presents and they are too awesome not to share.

Birthday T-shirt and comic

Yes, that’s a Janelle Monáe T-shirt and it’s creased because I’ve already worn it. The book is Paper Girls Volume 1 by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang. Vaughan is also the author of Ex-Machina, Y: the Last Man, Pride of Baghdad and Saga, all of which I have enjoyed a lot. Paper Girls is pretty much the only gap in my Vaughan knowledge and I’m excited to read it. And the other item in the picture is a set of reading-related stickers. My friends are awesome.